But also it fails it intentionally I’m thinking. But it also is a Bechdel Test… and to that end it fails… miserably.
#DEUS EX MACHINA MOVIE MOVIE#
The movie is specifically a Turing Test for Ava. It not only delves into the realm of artificial intelligence and robotic intelligence… but also delves into the ideas of the definition of slavery and even starts us thinking about “women’s” rights. Its obvious that we are deep in the bowels of a Dark Mirror episode, but where is it going to go? And to what end?Įx Machina covers a lot of philosophical territory very very quickly. And so within just the first few minutes we are confronted with a curiously unique setup. And everything just is slightly a bit off kilter. It isn’t clear what is going on with Ava. It’s clear that not everything here is as it seems. This slow boil of a movie starts out extremely fascinating because of Nathan’s obvious duplicitousness. If you haven’t seen it you probably should go no further than the trailer. Maybe the trailer will remind you of how this movie works.
#DEUS EX MACHINA MOVIE SERIES#
And through a series of seven interviews between Caleb and Ava, the movie begins ratcheting up the thumbscrews tighter and tighter. Caleb is brought on a helicopter to an unknown and unnamed location out in the woods to meet with Nathan and begin evaluating the robot that Nathan has named Ava. Nathan harnesses the knowledge and information his company is privy to, and uses it to create a potentially sentient robot. And his hope is to test the qualities and the capabilities of his new robot with the help of a developer in his company. The President of Bluebook – Nathan – has begun developing his own project completely off the radar. Caleb, a young upstart programmer has won a competition to T and evaluate a female robot and her A.I. experiment of a female robot.” 10! (If you count A.I.
“A developer is invited to evaluate the A.I. “So, there’s this guy, who’s a developer and, well, you know… he gets invited, told really, …” nope. It is so simple to overview that I bet I could even do it in 10 words or less? Here, let’s give it a shot. Regardless, while Ex Machina is possibly one of the simplest movies to give an overview of, it definitely isn’t going to be the simplest movie to explain. And the “God in the Machine” has then come to mean the soul of a machine… or self aware AI in the machine. Ex Machina – by itself then means what? In the machine? Or, of the machine? Or better yet, from the machine? But in more modern usage of the word Deus Ex Machina became the more literal translation of the phrase, God in the Machine. Basically it was the intervention of fantasy into an otherwise normal every day play that may not have even made sense. A crane would wheel the god from off stage across the sky in order to save the day. So, originally Ex Machina came from the phrase, Deus Ex Machina which was a story telling device for saving the main characters. Also, I interviewed Murray Shanahan to discuss one big massive Easter Egg in Ex Machina, which you might find interesting.
But there is plenty to chat about here ahead of the touchy stuff because it is groundwork that needs to be laid for the deeper conversations anyway. But, don’t worry if you haven’t seen it yet, I will give you the heads up as to when you need to leave.
#DEUS EX MACHINA MOVIE FULL#
And seeing as though I’ve already talked pretty extensively (extensively for me anyway) about the Avengers I figured we should probably take a peek at Ex Machina and see what all the underground hoopla is all about.įirst things first… this post will get extremely spoilery soon enough – and even if you’ve seen it, I promise that the full explanation will turn your brain inside out.
Well, it would appear that while everyone else was out at the theater queuing to see Avengers, and catapulting their box office northward of 1.2 billion at the time of this writing, that there was a much more insignificant movie in the theaters that was quietly blowing minds and changing the way we think about our relationships with the ubiquitous machines all around us.
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